Infighting among pilots might impact Air India's 787 flights
Grounding increases govt carrier's fuel cost by Rs 40 lakh daily, forces changes in schedules.
After rectifying battery glitches, Air India has inducted 6 aircraft so far
The national carrier, which is operating flights to evacuate Indians stranded in foreign countries, have asked its pilots to undertake coronavirus test before they operate such flights.
Several such incidents of windshield cracks suffered by the Dreamliners of Air India have been reported in the past.
Sale, leaseback of aircraft fetch Air India $150 million; funds to be used to partly repay bridge loan.
The AI-111 flight departed from the Delhi airport at around 5.20 pm instead of its scheduled departure time of 2 pm, they said.
Boeing Corp. will on Sunday roll out its latest offering - the Boeing 787 Dreamliner - billed as the most economical and fuel efficient jet that will soon make its debut in India with top airlines Air India and Jet Airways placing orders for 37 jets.
The All Nippon Airways Flight NH7871 left Tokyo shortly after noon, arriving four hours and eight minutes later to be greeted by traditional dance and music.
'I don't think there will be a direct reaction to the fuel price hike on air ticket prices.'
Air India's 125-aircraft fleet includes brand new Boeing and Airbus planes including B777, A321, A320 and A319.
By Friday, two of these Boeing 787 Dreamliner planes would be test-flown several times daily between Delhi and Amritsar so that the pilots and cabin crew get the experience of several landings and take-offs.
The aircrafts were flown to Mumbai for maintainance reasons
An Air India Dreamliner, with 184 passengers and crew onboard operating on London-Delhi route, made "priority" landing at the IGI Airport after some warning lights indicating problem with the braking system blipped in the cockpit.
There are several first officers who have flown 5,000 hours
A shortage of pilots and cabin crew is one reason for flight delays.
The Abu Dhabi-based airline is busy raising its brand recall, to catch up with Emirates.
Air India's new Boeing 787 Dreamliner will start flying on domestic routes from September 19, with the airline hoping that the fuel-efficient aircraft will bring back its good old 'Maharaja' days by saving costs.
The CCEA approved the TAP and the airline's financial restructuring plan, which includes additional equity infusion by the government.
The flight will operate every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday. While the inaugural flight AI 139 left at 6 pm (Indian time) on Thursday, the scheduled departure will be 4.50 pm (Indian time) from March 25 when the summer schedule comes into operation.
It said Air India "accepted" that though the number of flights from Delhi "increased substantially.
The development comes four days ahead of the launch of a training programme for pilots to fly the Boeing 787 Dreamliners.
Though the Dharmadhikari report expects Air India would be cash surplus by eight years, the efforts are on so that it happens earlier.
Tata group-owned Air India plans to hire expat pilots for its Boeing 777 planes as the airline is facing a shortage of pilots amid plans to expand its fleet as well as international operations, according to sources. The carrier is looking to rope in around 100 pilots for the wide-body Boeing 777 fleet and has approached various agencies that provide expat flight crew to airlines, the sources told PTI. The loss-making Air India, which was under government ownership for nearly seven decades till the Tata group took over in January 2022, had stopped hiring expat pilots many years ago to save costs.
Says pilots ready to resume work but civil aviation minister unwilling to reinstate sacked employees
Four Air India international flights were cancelled from Delhi and Mumbai today after about 100 pilots refused to join work.
The company officials informed that a static test of the fuselage was over and an analysis of the results could be finished by the end of December.
No move yet on delivery of 787s slated for mid-January.
The national carrier, which had placed orders for 27 of these aircraft six years ago, would get its first Dreamliner on Saturday, which is to be followed by the delivery of two more within the next few weeks.
This was one of the planes being readied for Air India that has ordered 27 of them, official sources said.
India has got the money and workforce, but no Indian firm has so far decided to do it
In a statement, Civil Aviation Minister K Rammohan Naidu said the airport and emergency teams responded swiftly and effectively after a full emergency was declared at 18.05 hours.
Air India says it would be operating its new Boeing-787 Dreamliner aircraft on key domestic routes, not abroad, to begin with. The first of these is to be inducted later this month, on routes such as Mumbai-Delhi.
Air India has six Dreamliners and has ordered 21 more.
Air India plans to buy 27 B-787 'Dreamliners' from Boeing which are to be delivered in phases.
According to the Seattle-based Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace, its 'professional' members -- who perform the main engineering duties on Boeing planes -- voted narrowly in favor of accepting the contract, while a smaller group of "technical" members -- who support the engineers -- voted to reject it. Both groups voted in favor of authorizing the union to call a strike.
Boeing admitted on Wednesday that it would have to redesign parts of its troubled 787 Dreamliner, raising the prospect of a third delay to delivery of the new aircraft would be delayed for the third time in recent months. The company's comments came in response to a warning from Steven Udvar-Hazy, chairman of International Lease Finance Corporation (ILFC), the 787's biggest customer.
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